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France Wants to Prosecute the Founder of Chat Site Linked to Pelicot Rapes
France Rape Trial France Rape Trial France Rape Trial Isaac Steidl founded the Coco platform, which authorities tied to criminal activity for years. The effort to hold Mr. Steidl accountable tests a new legal frontier. By Aurelien BreedenCatherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris Shortly after Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was…
‘My father should die in prison’, daughter of Dominique Pelicot tells BBC
Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse It was 20:25 on a Monday evening in November 2020 when Caroline Darian got the call that changed everything. On the other end of the phone was her mother, Gisèle Pelicot. “She announced to me that she discovered that morning that [my father] Dominique had been drugging…
France Indicts Founder of Notorious Website Used in Pelicot Rape Case
France Rape Trial The site, coco.fr, was shut down in June after being linked to more than 23,000 sexual abuse and other cases in France alone, including the rape trial that shocked the country last year. By Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic Reported from Paris The founder of the website used by Dominique Pelicot…
Gisèle Pelicot rape case: 17 men appeal against convictions
Dominique Pelicot, the 72-year-old man who drugged and raped his wife Gisèle and recruited dozens of men to rape her over a decade, will not appeal against his 20-year jail sentence, his lawyer Béatrice Zavarro said. However, 17 of the 49 men who were convicted of raping or sexually assaulting Ms Pelicot at Dominique’s behest…
Dominique Pelicot, Convicted in Mass Rape Trial in France, Will Not Appeal
France Rape Trial Seventeen of the other 50 men convicted in the case — most for participating in rapes of Gisèle Pelicot, then Mr. Pelicot’s wife — have filed appeals, according to a lawyer. By Ségolène Le Stradic and Richard Fausset Reporting from Paris Dominique Pelicot, the 72-year-old who admitted to drugging his wife for…
At least 15 men in Gisèle Pelicot rape and assault trial appeal against convictions
Court found 51 men guilty including Dominique Pelicot, who was given a 20-year prison sentence At least 15 of the men found guilty of raping or sexually abusing Gisèle Pelicot have appealed against their convictions and will be given a second trial. All 51 men, including her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, were convicted and given prison…